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Spam at Two-year Low, Says Symantec | Click Forensics Reports Fraud Down

Published on January 28, 2011
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  • Symantec released its January MessageLabs Intelligence Report, and says that spam is down to its lowest levels in nearly two years. Analysis reveals that following a two-week dramatic decline in spam levels, spam now accounts for 78.6 percent of all email traffic, the lowest rate since March 2009, when the global spam rate was 75.7 percent of all email traffic. The volume of spam in circulation in January 2011 was 65.9% lower than for the same period one year ago in January 2010, when the spam rate was 83.9% of all email traffic. The recent decline was the result of both a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets – Rustock, Lethic and Xarvester – and also unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, the company said.
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